page_title: Maverick Viñales
section_title: 2012
hierarchical_section_title: Maverick Viñales / Career / Moto3 World Championship / 2012
caption_attribution_description: Català: Viñales motorland 2011
context_page_description: Maverick Viñales Ruiz is a Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle racer and former Moto3 world champion, taking the title in 2013. He is currently competing in the premier class of MotoGP, where in 2015 he won the rookie of the year title in MotoGP.
context_section_description: Viñales went into the 2012 season as title favourite in the newly formed Moto3 championship. He won five races early on in the season, but a lack of consistency with several crashes meant that he was not able to keep up with Sandro Cortese. Going into Malaysia still with a slim chance of winning the title, he shocked fans and media when he angrily left his team and flew back home, withdrawing from the race. Cortese won the race and the title with Luis Salom moving into second place. Viñales later stated that he had not been informed of offers from other Moto3 teams, that the team refused to move him up into Moto2 and instead made him sign an extension to his contract into 2014 and that he was unable to win with them as it was a "second division team".
  Viñales eventually apologized and returned to the team for the final two races of the season, securing third in the standings, but losing the runner-up spot to Salom.
caption: Viñales at the 2013 Aragon Grand Prix
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